The default network setting in your virtual machine will be NAT, which gives the VM its own IP address in its own personal subnet (the 192.168.1.* range you are referring to).
To make the virtual machine share your Mac's connection directly, you need to switch the network mode to Bridged. This will make your VM appear as its own computer on your local network, and it should get a 10.* IP.
This setting should be under
Network on the
Virtual Machine menu of VMware Fusion.
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After changing the option, you might have to force the Linux VM to get a new IP address to reflect the new change. You can either restart it, or from a terminal and as root inside the VM, run:
Code:
ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0
to restart the network connection.
I run Linux VMs frequently under Parallels all the time, and I often choose Bridged Networking over the default option to make the VMs appear as computers in their own right to the local network.
More information is available
on this page (and is where I sourced that image).